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Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant 
of Marietta, Ohio 



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1620 1788 

1920 



The 

Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant 

of Marietta, Ohio 



1620 1788 

1920 



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BY 

WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON 



MUSKINGUM PARK, MARIETTA, OHIO 
JUNE FIFTEENTH 

NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY 



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Copyright, 1920 

by William Chauncy Langdon 

All rights reserved 



M 23 1920 



The Pageant Committee 



President Edward S. Parsons, Chairman 



Mrs. W. L. Bedillion 
t. b. bosworth 
Miss Rowena Buell 
Miss Willa D. Cotton 
W. E. Daker 
Rev. W. L. Goldsmith 



g. r. humberger 
Mrs. Frank McKinney 
Miss Frances Oldham 
Miss Esther Parsons 
Edwin Strecker 
E. M. Wisdom 



The Pageant Direction 

William Chauncy Langdon, Master of the Pageant 
Francis MacMillen, Composer of the Music 
G. R. HuMBERGER, Conductor of the Orchestra 



FOREWORD 



The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant of Marietta, Ohio, seeks 
to commemorate and to bring into their relation of very direct 
influence the coming of the Pilgrims to New England three 
hundred years ago and the coming of the pioneers to the North- 
west Territory in 1788. The parts are taken by members of 
the faculty and student body of Marietta College and by citizens 
of the town of Marietta and their families, all uniting to pro- 
duce a drama of the history and background of their common 
community. 

The pageant grounds are located in Muskingum Park, 
Marietta, where some of the events represented in the episodes 
of the pageant took place, and in front of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, the oldest of the churches, the fine architecture 
of which gives an excellent symbolic background for the his- 
torical and ideal scenes presented. 

The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant of Marietta, Ohio, has 
been written and composed on the principle that both dramatic- 
ally and musically the pageant is a distinct and individual art- 
form, having its own laws and its own technique. All the 
elements of this pageant have been worked together in accord- 
ance with these laws and technical considerations, to produce, 
if may be, in the sequence of actual, typical or symbolic scenes 
a clear, beautiful and impressive drama of the events recorded 
and of their significance to this community. 

In presenting the historical material a certain freedom has 
necessarily been exercised for the sake of dramatic clarity and 
effectiveness. In many instances the language of the dialogue 
is in the actual words of the characters represented. It has, 
however, seemed inadvisable to indicate these passages by quo- 
tation marks, on account of the frequent necessity for making 
jr light changes, omissions, or additions in the wording to suit 
the situation as represented. Also some of omissions and 
changes have been made in the producing which it has not been 
thought necessary to specify here. 

W. C. L. 



The Pilgrim Tercentenary Pageant 
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1620 1788 1920 



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I. PROLOGUE: Marietta 7 

1. Cape Cod and the Compact 9 

2. Plimouth in New England 17 

II. INTERLUDE: The Prayer of the Ages 28 

3. The Second Mayflower 29 

4. The Northwest Territory 37 

in. EPILOGUE: To America! 45 



I. Prologue: Marietta 



The music plays, full orchestra and fortissimo, the main 
theme of the pageant, taken from the song, "Time-Honored 
Marietta." Then after an instant's pause, beginning again, 
moderato, the music develops an elaboration of the theme. To 
this there enters from the central door of the church the sym- 
bolic figure of Marietta, clad in simple robes of blue, wearing a 
golden wreath on her head and carrying in her hand the Torch 
of Learning and Inspiration. At the same time there come 
from either side figures in green. Spirits of the Wilderness, 
suggestive of the ever-continuing fertility of the Ohio valley. 
They take their places in two groups at the bottom of the steps 
on either side, while Marietta stands in the portico between 
the great columns at the head of the steps and raises her torch 
in greeting to the people before her. As raising high the torch 
the speaks, only the strings continue, sostenuto vibrato piano, 
the simple chords of the Marietta motif. 

Marietta : 

Three hundred years ago the seed was sown 

That bore the golden harvest we now reap : 

Three hundred years their quiet power has wrought, 

With conscience, courage, tolerance and hope, 

In generation after generation 

Of the men and women of America. 

Dear people, you who live here in this town, 

My children born, or later come, who here 

Have gathered, settled, here have made your homes, — 

Here Rufus Putnam and his forty-eight 

First landed. They were children of the men 

Who landed there at Plymouth. Deep they breathed 

The inspiration of the Pilgrim Fathers, 

Forth from Massachusetts went, and came 

To this beloved spot, where they in turn 

Through conscience, courage, tolerance and hope 

Have wrought in all who followed them till now. 



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Three hundred years it is since Carver led 
The Pilgrims to the haven of Cape Cod; 
One hundred thirty two since Putnam brought 
The second Mayflower's high adventurers here. 

Then Marietta turns and raises her torch in signal, first to 
one side, then to the other. Therewith the music plays a theme 
taken from an old hymn tune, the theme of the Pilgrims, which 
appears first in the old plain style and then in more modern 
treatment, alternately. With this Governor John Carver comes 
in from one side. Marietta again raises the torch to him as he 
takes his place on the steps a little below her, and he gravely 
bows low to her. Then General Ruf us Putnam similarly comes 
in from the other side, is greeted by Marietta, takes his place, 
and bows low. Then again the strings play the simple chords 
of the Marietta motif as she begins to speak again. 

Makietta : 

So, filled with gratitude for all we owe 

To them for heritage of virile faith, 

Robust intelligence, we come here now 

To see, to hear how they, our fathers, came ; 

In what devoted spirit they set forth 

Into the dark and threatening wilderness ; — 

That we with that same spirit may set forth 

To make our way through all the dark and strange 

Perplexities of our most troubled times. 

The threatening wildernesses we must face. 

As Marietta finishes. Governor Carver and General Putnam 
bow low to her and she raises high the torch over the people in 
the audience before her. Then the music breaks forth into a 
short march based on the Marietta motif. Marietta turns and 
followed by Governor Carver and General Putnam disappears 
into the central door of the church, whence she came, while the 
Spirits depart at the sides. 



1 . Cape Cod and the Compact 

Up from the water come a number of the Pilgrims arrived 
on the Mayflower at last in the good harbor of Cape Cod and 
brought safe to land. Among the first are Captain Myles 
Standish and William Bradford, John Carver and Elder William 
Brewster, and Edward Winslow. In a moment come some of 
the women helped along by the men, and younger people too. 
Brewster: Let us praise God! 

(All the Pilgrims fall upon their knees. Others just com- 
ing up also kneel as soon as they reach their comrades. Stand- 
ish does not kneel until Brewster actually begins his prayer. 

Brewster : Blessed be Thy name, God of Heaven, Who hast 
brought us over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered 
us from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set our 
feet on the firm and stable earth, our proper element. 
Amen. 

Pilgrims : Amen. 

(Thomas Jones, the master of the Mayflower, with some of 
the disaffected passengers from London, comes up just as 
Brewster is closing his prayer. They look on without rever- 
ence, as the Pilgrims arise from their knees.) 

Standish: What is the latitude here. Master? 

Jones: Forty-two degrees and three minutes north. 

Londoner: That is beyond the boundaries of the Virginia 
Company's charter! 

Jones : Aye, aye ; it is. 

Bradford: It were well to look around quickly. The winter 
comes apace. 

Jones: So must you do in truth, and that with speed. The 
season now is such I will not stir the Mayflower from hence, 
until you find a safe harbor with your shallop. Victuals 
consume apace. I must and will have plenty for my voyage 
back to England. 



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Carver : Carpenter, how long will it require to get our shallop 
off the boat, haul it ashore and joined together? 

Carpenter : Some two or three days at the least. 
Bralford : Truly that would make slow work of it. 
Carpenter: It may be slow indeed, but still it must be 

thorough. 
Jones: Make speed, I say, or I will turn you and your goods 

ashore and leave you where you are. 
Standish: Why delay? Let us explore the country by land 

at once. • 

WiNSLOW: It were well to know whether this place will an- 
swer for us to seat in or no. 

Bradford: Put every man to work. 
Londoner : I will not work. 
Standish : You will not work? 
Carver: And wherefor will you not? 

Londoner: We are beyond the boundaries of the Virginia 
Company. There is no authority of law here to compel us. 

Standish : Of law — it may be not ; but still — 

Carver: True is it we are beyond the powers of our charter. 
If there is no law, still may we make a law to check the 
lawless. William Bradford, Elder Brewster, Edward Win- 
slow, let us draw together and devise a compact which may 
' hold us all, ourselves and them, until we get a new authority 
from King James. 

Londoners: We are ashore and we will use our own liberty. 
None has power to command us. 

Standish: We shall see. If all the company agree, you will 
have to obey, or stand in pillory and stocks, and starve. 

(There are some indications of rising disorder. Standish 
calls together a few of the younger men and they soon stop off 
any such tendency. Meantime the leaders of the Pilgrims have 
been writing on a tablet.) 

Carver: Come together here, my friends. We have devised 



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a compact for our government, which all should sign, if 
all to it agree. 

(They gather together, families standing together. The 
discontented Londoners stand aloof by themselves, yet so tha 
they can hear. The master, Jones, with one or two of h' 
sailors wanders off.) 

Carver: Read the Compact, William Bradford. 

Bradford : In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are 
under written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign 
Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, 
France, and Ireland king. Defender of the Faith, etc., hav- 
ing undertaken . for the glory of God and advancement of 
the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a 
voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of 
Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually i ^ 
the presence of God and of one another covenant and com- 
bine ourselves together into a civil body politic for our 
better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the 
ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute 
and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, con- 
stitutions and offices from time to time as shall be thought 
most meete and convenient for the general good of the 
Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and 
obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunder sub- 
scribed our names at Cape Cod the 11 of November, in the 
year of the reign of our sovereign lord King James, of 
England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scot- 
land the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini, 1620. 

Carver: Does this writing express your will with regard to 
our government? 

Most of the Pilgrims : Aye, aye. It does. 

Carver: Come then and sign Hie compact every man for him- 
self and for his family. 
(In turn the leaders sign: Carver, Bradford, Winslow, 

Brewster, Allerton, Standish and the others. 

Carver: And you? 



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(Carver addresses the Londoners, and Standish looks over 
at them with no lenient look while fingering his sword. They 
slouch over and sign the Compact. When all have written their 
names on the document, Bradford rolls it up and puts it in the 
folds of his cape.) 

Bradford : We had before chosen John Carver as a man godly 
and well approved amongst us to be our leader in this 
voyage. Now we are governed by this new signed Com- 
pact, shall we not now confirm him to be our Governor for 
this year? 

Several: Aye, aye. So let us do. 

Bradford : Those who will that John Carver be our Governor 
under this compact for the year, and will obey him, say 
Aye and raise your hands. 

All : Aye. 

Bradford : John Carver, you are our Governor by the will and 
voice of all, as ever you have been our leader on this voy- 
age. 

Carver: My best endeavors are at your command. 

(Governor Carver bows low to his people, and all the Pil- 
grims bow low to him. There is silence a moment.) 

Standish : Now then, to find a shipping harbor and a site 
whereon to build! 

Carver: Be not precipitate, for death is close at hand. W'^ 
could not travel far on foot, and we should be exposed to 
danger from the Indians. The shallop — 

Standish : The shallop will not be mended, fit to use, for sev- 
eral days. 

Carver: Two days, or three. 

Standish: Two days or three! Give me those days to put 
these perils to the test. Then when the shallop's ready, we 
can go a longer way. 

Bradford : And so say I ! 

Carver : What say you, men ? Shall we send forth an expedi- 
tion now to explore this land on foot, or wait until the 
shallop shall be done? 



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Many of Them : Now ! Go now on foot. Another expedition 
later. 

Carver: So be it, then. You, Captain Standish, and you, 
William Bradford, take with you fourteen men. Use cau- 
tion and all prudence. Take every man his musket, sword 
and corslet. For what befalleth you, befalleth all of us, 
and in your fate there lies the fate of all. 

(Standish and Bradford pick out their men. All get ready, 
their wives helping them to prepare, buckling on their corslets 
and making up packages of provisions which they fasten on 
their backs. Biscuits and Holland cheese make up much of the 
food they carry.) 

Mistress Bradford : Farewell to thee, William ! I have a sad 

strange feeling I shall see thee no more. 
Bradford : Nay, nay, my wife, thy fears are of the evil one. 
Mistress Bradford : I wish thee well. 

Bradford : Fear not ! A short time only shall I be gone, and 
thou art safe here with the company. 

Mistress Bradford : I'll go back now upon the ship. 

Bradford: Farewell, dear wife! 

(The men are now all of them ready. At Standish's com- 
mand they come together and start off. The people who remain 
stand together watching them as they recede farther from their 
view.) 

A Man: What is ttiat? Look, there on that sandy hill! 

Another: Indians! Five Indians — 

A Woman : Where are our men ? 

First Man : Six Indians, and a dog. 

Second: They seem to whistle him away. 

Second Woman: There are our men again. 

Third Man : They're following the Indians. 

First Man: They're running. They're gone. Up into the 
woods. 

A Boy: Where're the Indians gone? 



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First Man : Into the woods up on the hill. See? There where 
Standish is just going in. 

First Woman : Now our men are all in the woods too. 

Second Man: Ha! There, over there, the Indians again! 
They have forsook the woods and run away along the sands 
as hard as they can go. 

Third Man: Our men cannot come near them. 
Second Woman : Now they are all gone. 
Third Woman : All gone. 

(While they were watching the Indians the excitement was 
intense. Now they form into little groups, attending to various 
minor matters ; some of the men getting their tools to work on 
the shallop, others bringing various articles ashore. A number 
of the women give their attention to their children, while others 
come through with clothes which they take down to the shore to 
wash. Governor Carver goes back to the Mayflower.) 

A Woman : This little pond will be a good place to wash the 
clothes. 

Another: It is fresh water. 

A Third: Ah me! They need it bad enough. 

(So the various occupations and interests engross their 
attention, until they are suddenly called together again by one 
man who has taken upon himself something of the duties of 
watchman. Then all excitedly run together from every direc- 
tion. Governor Carver returns with the others.) 

A Man : Ho ! Here they come ! Here are our men again ! 

Another: They are carrying something. 

A Woman : Is it one of them ? Can any of them have been — 

hurt? 
Another: They have been gone, — it seems so long. 

(From the direction whither they went Standish, Brad- 
ford, and the other men come back. Some have gone out to 
meet them and come back with them. Two of the men carry 
a great kettle full of corn and green stuff cut in the woods.) 



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Standish : Corn ! Corn ! We have found corn, buried by the 
Indians. Plenty for all. See what quantity we have 
brought with us. 

Carver: A providence of the God of Hosts for our welfare! 

All : Amen. 

Carver : Yet shall we remember this corn is not our own. We 
will therefore take it for but a while in trust through Him 
for our salvation, and when we come upon the owners we 
will make restitution unto them again. 

All: Aye, so will we. So will we. 

(At the direction of Standish the two men carry the kettle 
of corn on out toward the ship. There is considerable bustling 
around again as the women help their husbands divest them- 
selves of their corslets. Governor Carver approaches one Ox 
the men who went with Standish.) 

Carver: Master William White, you must know that whi) 
you have been away in the service of all the company your 
wife through the mercy of God has been delivered of a 
child, — a son. See, here is thy babe. 

(A woman comes bringing an infant. White takes the little 
one in his arms.) 

White: Now God be praised and thanked! And, my son, as 
thou art a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth, indeed 
even from the moment of thy birth, I will name thee Pere- 
grine, — Peregrine White, born here in the haven of Cape 
Cod, in the harbor of a new world. 

(Bradford comes over to White and looks at the child in 
his arms.) 

Bradford : Aye, for indeed we know that we all are pilgrims 
and look not much on those things that are about us but 
lift up our eyes to the heavens, our dearest country, and so 
quiet we our spirits. 

White : Take him to his mother. I will follow you. 



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(The woman takes the child again and carries him away, 
while White stands watching her. Governor Carver comes up 
to William Bradford.) 

Carver: Ah, Bradford, William Bradford, in this short time 
the Lord has laid His hand upon thee while thou wert gone. 
(There is silence) . Death has come close to thee, my 
brother, and who can tell when we ourselves shall go. Th;, 
wife is dead. 

Bradford: My — wife? 

Carver: Thy wife. An accident. She drowned. 

White: Oh, Bradford! 

Bradford: Life — and death. So shall we go together. 

(The two men go out toward the Mayflower — Bradford, 
his head bowed in grief ; White, his arm on Bradford's shoulder 
comforting him.) 

Carver: Come, my people! Truly are we in the borders of 
the promised land both of this world and of the world to 
come. And truly do we know that we are pilgrims and 
must look not much on those things that are about us but 
lift up our eyes to the heavens, our dearest country, and s . 
shall we quiet our spirits. Our voyage is nearly done. 
Come, let us all go again upon the Mayflower, and when 
the shallop is ready we will make another expedition far- 
ther along the coast. We soon shall find our final resting 
place and be at home at last. Our voyage is nearly done; 
it is nearly done! 

(The Pilgrims gather up their belongings and passing be- 
fore Governor Carver, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, and 
Captain Myles Standish, follow in the way that William Brad- 
ford and William White have preceded them. Then they also 
go, Standish last, turning and looking around as he goes.) 



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Governor John Carver, Elder William Brewster, Captain 
Myles Standish, William Bradford, and Edward Winslow come 
in talking among themselves. Also a few others of the Pil- 
grims. 

Carver: The building of the houses goes on apace, but we 
must take some action for the care of our defense. Go, 
call the members of the Company together, where they are 
cutting wood and hewing puncheons in the forest. 

The other Pilgrims go out in different directions, and soon 
the members of the Company begin to come, assembling from 
all directions, women and children coming as well as the heads 
of families to hear what may be going forward. Some are 
evidently not at all well and lean on relatives or friends. Gov- 
ernor Carver takes his place on a high spot and the men gather, 
most of them seated on the ground, before him. Elder Brew- 
ster and the others stand near the Governor in a group. 

Carver: The Company will come to order that it may take 
action as a civil body politic. We have before at other 
meetings taken order and adopted measures for our civil 
government that we may comport ourselves as good people 
and as subjects of our sovereign Lord, King James. I 
now have called you all together here that as a Company 
you may take well advised action regarding our military 
protection. What will you do? 

Bradford : We should form ourselves into a military body and 
select a Captain to command us when in need. 

Others: Aye; aye. 

A Londoner: What needs there further action? Why is not 
this enough, just as we are? 

Winslow : We have a civil government, but if we should be 

attacked — 
Londoner : We have not been. 
Carver : So many of us sick, we needs must take precautions. 



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Bradford: I move that we elect Myles Standish to be our 
Captain and give him authority to command in affairs that 
need the military oversight. 

Others : Aye ; aye. I second it. 

Carver: Is this your will? Those who will have it so, say 

Aye and raise the hand. 
Most: Aye. 

Carver : And those who would not have it so, — 
Londoners : No ; no. Nor ivill we have it so. 
Carver : The ayes control the Voices of the Company. What 

would you then? 

Londoner: This all is without law and all invalid. We will 
not obey — 

Carver: 'Tis true our actions all are without sanction of a 
charter from our sovereign Lord, the King. Yet may we, 
and we must, decide what we will do here for the common 
good. To this we all of us agreed November last when at 
Cape Cod we made our compact with each other, in the 
presence of God and all the Company. 

Bradford : You will conform to what the most of us decide or 
shift to feed and to support yourselves without the aid of 
all the rest. 

Winslow: And defend yourselves against the Indians as you 
may — 

Standish : But not behind our palisade. 

Carver : And if you do aught that shall bring misfortune upon 
us, we shall find a way to make you answerable. 

Standish : That we shall. 

Carver: So it were well that you consent and agree with us 
in measures for the safety and the good of all, however 
much it may dislike you. 

Londoners : Aye ; aye. We do consent. 

Two Indians appear in sight a little way off, making sigi" 
for some to come to them. Standish returns the signal bidding 
them to come nearer. But they do not approach. Standish 



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and Hopkins start toward them, Hopkins laying down his 
musket on the ground, but immediately the Indians disappear. 
There is heard, however, a great noise of Indians somewhat 
farther away. Standish and Hopkins come back. 

Standish : Now shall we speedily plant our great ordnances 
in places most convenient for their proper use and our 
defense. Go, you, tell Master Jones to bring the minion 
straightway up the hill and plant it on the platform. H ^ 
has brought one piece of ordnance already from the May- 
flower ; it is lying on the sands there near the rock. Come, 
men, and bring it up. 

A number of the men go down to the water's edge, while 
others return to carry rough hewn boards from the forest to 
where they are building each one the house in which his family 
shall live. Soon the Master of the Mayflower, Thomas Jones, 
comes up from the bay with some sailors hauling up the hill a 
heavy piece of ordnance, called a minion, and some of the men 
of the Pilgrims hauling another piece of ordnance, a sailer and 
two bases. Jones himself is not pulling on the rope but carries 
n goose and two other wild birds. 

Standish : Right up the hill to the platform. 
Jones: On top of the hill? 
Standish : Aye. 

Brewster : From thence we may see far into the sea ; we may 
see thence Cape Cod. 

Standish: It will command all round about. 

Carver : The platform with the minion mounted there will in 
itself do much to give us security from the Indians, and we 
shall be early warned of the approach of any vessel. 

WiNSLOW : This was a wise choice for our situation, this high 
ground on the main land, selected by most voices of the 
Company. 

Erewster: It is a very sweet brook that runs beneath the 
hillside. 

WiNSLOW: There we may harbor our shallops and boats ex- 
ceedingly well. 



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Howland: Aye, and the rock affords us a tolerable enough 
wharf for landing till we can make a better. 

Carver: The ground has been well cleared for corn. 

Bradford : So we survive this first hard winter, I foresee we 
shall do very well and not die out as did George Popham's 
colony a while ago upon the Kennebec. 

Carver: This sickness, though — this sickness drives us hard! 

Jones : Now, haul away there ! Get the thing along ! 

Standish: That is a right fat goose you have there. Master 
Jones. 

Jones: 'Twill serve to hearten us when we have got these 
ordnances into place, and by my troth I swear we shall be 
inclined to something good. 

Carver: We shall all be kindly and friendly together indeed. 

Brewster : The sick ones too will like a taste. 

Jones : There is enough. There are three good birds here. 

Standish : A little goose will do the sick ones good ; and the 
fat withal to grease their chests. 

William Bradford is passing through, having gone and got 
his axe, when suddenly he gives a sharp cry and reaches out to 
get support from some one near at hand. He reaches down to 
his leg and would crumple down upon the ground except that 
Elder Brewster and Myles Standish catch him and hold him 
between them. 

Bradford : Oh ! — Oh ! 

Brewster : Art thou taken now, good friend ? 

Standish : Lean on me, William. There, — so, — lean on us. 
We will take care of thee. 

There is much concern as the people make way for Brad- 
ford to be taken out. A man comes meeting them. 

A Man : William White is dead. 

Carver: Ah, even so? So many die, some every day! And 

yet, please God, the worst is past, — when only six or seven 

of us all were well to tend the rest ! 



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Bradford: William White? Ah, William, mayhap I follow 
thee. 

Standish : No, no, not so. 

Brewster : Near fifty of us are deceased, but thou shalt live. 

Brewster and Standish lead Bradford out. Suddenly there 
is a commotion. One or two men run in, followed by a couple 
of women clasping their children. Immediately there follows 
them, striding swiftly, boldly in among the people a tall fine 
looking Indian. He raises his hand in salutation. 

Samoset: Welcome, Englishmen! 

There is much consternation, and the Pilgrims gather 
around Governor Carver, as he steps forward to address the 
Indian. Standish comes back and goes and stands beside 
Carver. 

Carver: Who are you? 

Samoset : Samoset. I am sagamore of Moratiggon, with great 
wind, sail a day; by land along the trail, five days, there 
east. Welcome, Englishmen! 

Carver: And you are welcome here among us too. Bring 
food and drink for him, to entertain him. You are a 
friend ? 

Samoset : Friend. 

Some women bring food and drink, which they pass to the 
men near the Governor and he directs that they be given to 
Samoset. 

Standish : Where are the Indians here? Are they friends? 

Samoset: This place Patuxet. Four years ago all Indians 
here, they die, a sickness, warriors, squaws, and children 
die; all die. One only lives. I bring him here to you. 
Tisquantem is his name. He talk more English than I do. 
Hunt, bad Englishman, capture him and carry him to 
Spain ; he go to England ; he come back again. 

Carver: We are no friends of Hunt's. Bring this Tisquantem 
here. Tell him that we shall be his friends. 

Standish: Who are the Indians over there? 



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Samoset : Great warrior over there. Great king. Massasoit. 

I bring him here to be good friends with Englishmen. 
Carver : Tell Massasoit we will be good friends with him. 
Samoset : I will. 

Samoset raises his hand high again in farewell, turns and 
rapidly departs. As the crowd is beginning to break up, the 
Master of the Mayflower and some of his sailors come up the 
liill from the water, and approach Governor Carver. 

Jones: The spring has come; the dangers of the winter sea 
are past. I wish now you dismiss us. I would sail forth- 
with for England once again. 

Carver: There is no more occasion, I believe, to keep you 
here. The sickness is diminishing. Have you your papers 
there, — and I will sign them. 

(Jones hands his papers to Carver.) 

Jones : The sickness fell upon us grievously as well and almost 
half our crew have died. At first I do confess we did not 
treat you well, but would have put you all on shore regard- 
less of your situation and provision for your simple needs. 
But you, we soon did see, you show your love like Chris- 
tians indeed to one another, — and to us. 

Carver : So do we try to do, in truth. There are your papers 
signed. We wish you all fair voyage and God speed. 

Master Jones and his sailors of the Mayflower go back 
down the slope to the water. The Pilgrims gather together 
watching them depart, standing quietly and thoughtfully, the 
women, some of them, waving their kerchiefs as they see the 
ship that brought them to New England sail off, and fade away 
until it is but a speck upon the horizon and is gone. 

Carver: Now is the time, good friends, when we must plant 
our corn. Go, some, and get the corn found buried by the 
Indians on Cape Cod. We will divide it, an equal share to 
every family, and so provide for ample food against the 
coming fall. 

Several men go out and soon come back with baskets full 
of maize. Under Governor Carver's direction they give it out 



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in equal shares to the men who are heads of households. Whil 

they are thus engaged, Samoset comes again, another Indian 

with him. Some of the people on the edges of the crowd see 

them. 

Several: Samoset again; and another Indian. 

Samoset : Tisquantem. I bring Tisquantem. 

Carver: Welcome among us, Squanto! We shall be your 
friend if you are our friend. 

Squanto: I am your friend. I have been England. I have 
seen the Englishmen. I know that they are good, especi- 
ally those who wear the clothes like you. 

Standish : You prove you are our friend, and we will prove 
ourselves good friends to you. 

Squanto: I will. We shall be friends until the sun shall 
shine no more upon us. See, I will prove myself your 
friend today. What do you there? You plant your corn? 
But see, to make it grow, go down there to the brook and 
catch the fish that swarm up in the spring and put a fish 
in every hill of corn. Come ; I will show you. 

Several men and boys go down to the water with Squanto, 
taking one of the corn baskets with them. Meanwhile the dis- 
tribution of the seed-corn goes on. Soon the two Indians, tho 
men and boys come back, the basket now full of fish. Squanto 
takes a hoe from one of the men and shows him how to dig a 
hole and to put the fish in it with some kernels of com. Others 
of the Pilgrims come too, among them Elder Brewster and 
William Bradford, still quite feeble. 

Carver: You are our friend indeed, and you shall make your 
home here with us if you will, here where you and your 
people used to live before we came, and before Hunt car 
ried you away. 

Squanto : I am your friend, and I will live here with you. 

Carver: Come, every one, and plant the fields. Prepare the 
harvest, praying that the Lord may water it abundantly 
and the earth may yield its increase. 

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some part in the planting of the com, from Governor Carver 
to the smallest boy. Brewster sta rts t o go out with Carver. 

Brewster : John Carver, are you well ? 

Carver: The day is hot. My head somehow does pain ms 
greatly. 

Brewster: Sit down and rest a moment, here beneath this 
tree. 

Carver sits down under the tree for a moment and almost 
sinks back. Then he braces himself up and starts to go on. 

Brewster : I trust you shall not now be sick ! 

Car\'ER : I do not know. It may be I have done my part. The 
voyage is nearly done. The voyage — 

Carver sinks back upon the ground. A boy is running 
past with a hoe. Brewster stops him. 

Brewster: Son, go call for Captain Standish and for Master 
Winslow. 

The boy runs off, Standish and Winslow soon come in. 

Brewster : I fear me much — 

Winslow : John Carver, must he be taken too ? 

Standish: Thou wert a wise and faithful Governor! 

They pick Governor Carver up to carry him out. Some 
men come in, seeing what has happened with grief and great 
concern. 

Brewster: Go, call the people quickly. Come, take him to 
his house. 

They go on out with the prone figure of Governor Carver. 
Soon the people come hurrying in from all directions, anxiously 
inquiring among themselves about their friend and leader. 
Standish comes back among them. They turn to him for in- 
formation. 

Standish : The Governor lay down upon his bed but soon his 
senses failed, so as he has not spoken since, I fear he will 
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There is the hush of great anxiety. William Bradford 
comes from the same direction with Brewster and Winslow. 

Brewster: You tell the people, Bradford. 

Bradford: John Carver is no more with us on earth. His 
pilgrimage is done. We all know well this worthy gentle- 
man was one of singular piety, and rare humility. When 
as this poor people were in great sickness and weakness, 
he shunned not to do very mean services for them, yea the 
meanest of them. He bare a share likewise of their labor 
in his own person. Being one of considerable estate, he 
spent the main part of it in this enterprise. From first to 
last to this the period of his life he approved himself to be 
a pious, faithful and very beneficent instrument. He now 
is reaping the fruit of his labor with the Lord. 

All: Amen; amen. 

Brewster : Good friends, we are under the instant sad neces- 
sity to choose another Governor. Whom will you have to 
serve in Governor Carver's place? 

Winslow : I would name William Bradford. 

Many: Aye; aye. William Bradford. 

Bradford : I still am sick. I have not strength for this. 

Standish : Then give him an Assistant. 

Many : Aye ; aye. An Assistant. We want Bradford for our 
Governor. Question; question! 

Brewster : Is there none other named ? 

Many : None ; none. We will have William Bradford. 

Brewster: It is the will of all. 

Bradford : So let it be. But give me an Assistant. 

Standish : Whom do you wish to have for your Assistant? 

Bradford: I would select, if it be asked of me, Isaac Allerton. 

All: So be it done. 

Brewster: Then, William Bradford, by the choice of all you 
are our Governor. 



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Governor Bradford bows his head low. 

Bradford: I will obediently serve you with the best I have 
and am. 

There is silence a moment. 

Bradford : Is there anything that should come before the Com- 
pany before we part? 

WiNSLOW: I crave the general consent of all the Company 
that Mistress White and I should wed. 

Bradford : It will be the first marriage in the colony. 

WiNSLOW: We both have suffered sore from the devastations 
of the sickness, as all of you do know. So would we share 
our griefs, and also hope, in God's free grace, for future 
joys the while we join in tending those who are dependent 
on us. In Holland, marriage was performed among us by 
the magistrate, and so we come to you, our Governor, to de- 
clare us man and wife with the consent of all the Company. 

Bradford : Susanna White, has Edward Winslow spoken your 
desire? 

Mistress White: He has. 

Bradford: And all of you bear witness? 

All: We all bear witness. 

Bradford : Then come unto the Common House, and there we 
will prepare and sign the proper documents. — Yea truly, 
life is but a pilgrimage. In life, in death alike we are in 
the hands of the Lord. May not and ought not the children 
of these fathers say : Our fathers were Englishmen which 
came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in 
this wilderness ; but they cried unto the Lord, and he heard 
their voice and looked on their adversity. Let them there- 
fore praise the Lord, because he is good, and his mercies 
endure forever. When they wandered in the desert wil- 
derness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both 
hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. 
Let them confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and 
his wonderful works before the children of men. For thus 



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they found the Lord to be with them in all their ways, and 
to bless their outgoings and their incomings, for which let 
his holy name have the praise forever, to all posterity. 

Governor Bradford goes first; then Elder Brewster, Cap- 
tain Standish, and Isaac Allerton; next Edward Winslow and 
Mistress Susanna White ; and the rest of the people of Plimouth 
in New England, departing to their own places. 



II. Interlude: The Prayer of the Ages 

The music plays the hymn, "0 God, Our Help in Ages 
Past." There enter from among the trees of the Common, the 
figure of Marietta in blue and carrying her torch, and Governor 
Carver and General Putnam, following her and walking side by 
side. They go straight up through the middle and kneel. Mari- 
etta on the top step. Governor Carver and General Putnam 
lower down, one on either side. They remain kneeling during 
the singing of the hymn by the chorus and the audience. 

God, our help in ages past. 
Our hope for years to come, 

Our shelter from the stormy blast 
And our eternal home. 

Under the shadow of Thy throne 
Thy saints have dwelt secure; 

Sufficient is Thine arm alone 
And our defense is sure. 

Before the hills in order stood 

Or earth received her frame, 
From everlasting Thou art God, 

To endless years the same. 

A thousand ages in Thy sight 

Are like an evening gone, 
Short as the watch that ends the night 

Before the rising sun. 

Time like an ever-flowing stream 

Bears all its sons away; 
They fly forgotten as a dream 

Dies at the opening day. 

God, our help in ages past, 

Our hope for years to come. 
Our shelter from the stormy blast 

And our eternal home. 

At the close of the hymn, the music plays a short postlude 
based upon the hymn. Marietta, Governor Carver and General 
Putnam return as they came, except that they depart on the 
side opposite to that whence they came. 



3. The Second Mayflower 



Up from the Muskingum come three soldiers from Fort 
Harmer, their riifles slung on their backs, and two of the boat 
builders of the Ohio Company's settlers, hauling on a rope, 
whereby they are bringing the second Mayflower up stream and 
across current to land. Captain Jonathan Devol is directing 
them. \ :i!'i]f||! 

Devol: Pull hard now! Hold it! Now bind it around that 
tree ! That brings her to. Now hold it there until we can 
tie her down at the water-edge ! 

Devol goes back down to the shore to superintend the tieing 
of the boat and the landing. The five men hold on to the rope, 
talking among themselves, yet at the same time keeping an alert 
ear and eye for possible danger as from force of habit. 

Soldier 1 : Where'd you stop last? 

Settler 1: Yesterday morning we took on provisions at the 
mouth of Buffalo Creek. John Mathews had arranged for 
them, and a quantity of poplar boards too for the erection 
of temporary huts until more substantial buildings can be 
built. 

Settler 2 : Wind it round the tree a couple of times ! There, 
now, two can hold her. 

One of the soldiers and one of the settlers hold on to the 
rope, while the other three sit on the ground ready to help if 
necessary. 

Soldier 2 : Didn't take all this time to get down from Buffalo 
Creek? 

Settler 1: Oh, no. About 4 o'clock we came to at Round 
Bottom and waited there until 9 or 10 o'clock in the even- 
ing, so as to reach the Muskingum here in the forenoon. 

Soldier 2 : Easy to go right by here without knowing it ! 

Settler 2: Yes, those poplar trees hang so close over the 



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water that you'd never notice it if it was raining or there 
was a mist hanging low, like it was today. 

Settler 1 : We went clean by before we could stop. Had to 
get you fellows from the Fort to haul us back. 

Soldier 1 : It was raining here earlier in the morning. 

Soldier 3 : Any trouble coming down ? 

Settler 2 : No. Run all night without meeting any accident. 

Soldier 2 : No hostile Indians living within a hundred miles of 
Fort Harmer. 

Soldier 1: Still you never can tell. Not hostile now, but — 
you never can tell about those savages. 

Soldier 3: All your people together? Any more coming 
down? 

Settler : All are here together, 48 of us. This big boat, the 
Mayflower, the flat for provisions, and three canoes, — 
that's all there is. 

Devol: All right up there! Ease off! Come down here and 
unload ! 

The five men let go the rope, unwind it from the tree and 
while one of the boat men coils it up on his arm they go down 
to the water. 

At the same time Gen. Rufus Putnam and the main body 
of the settlers with Captain McCurdy and a party of soldiers 
come up the bank from the Mayflower. 

McCuRDY: This is the point where you intend to make your 
settlement, General Putnam? 

Putnam : This is the point. And we are greatly beholden to 
you for your assistance. With that strong current it would 
have been only with great pains that we could have got 
back. 

McCuRDY: It would have been a serious loss to us at Fort 
Harmer if you had been carried past. With so many offi- 
cers of the Continental Army among you, it will be like 
old times indeed to have your settlement here. 



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Putnam: The settlement of this territory to the north-west 
of the Ohio is a project which General Washington has 
long had close to his heart. Not only does he himself own 
tracts of land here, but as long ago as when the British 
occupied New York and he had to retreat across New Jer- 
sey, when, you may remember, the British spread a report 
that the Emperor of Russia was sending troops to America 
to help them, the question was asked at General Washing- 
ton's table: "If this be true, and we are driven from the 
Atlantic border, what is to be done?" "We will retire to 
the valley of the Ohio," said Washington, "and there be 
free." And here without the compulsion of defeat, here 
we are, soldiers and officers of the Army, and members of 
the Society of Cincinnati, and here we will indeed be free! 

McCuRDY: I will place my men out as sentinels, so that all 
your men may engage in unloading your boats. 

Putnam : I thank you. 

McCuRDY : Cover the point as scouts. 

The soldiers go out in various directions to keep on the 
watch. 

Putnam: Oh, Quartermaster! Major White! Will you su- 
perintend the unloading of the boats? 

The settlers bring up from the water their equipment and 
provisions, surveying instruments, chests, poplar boards, and 
tools. They bring up and erect a marquee with its hempen 
roof for General Putnam. 

McCuRDY : You had a safe and undisturbed voyage down the 
river ? 

Putnam : Entirely so. On April 1st, having completed our 
Boats and laid in stores we left Sumrell's Ferry on the 
Yahiogany River, and here we are. 

McCuRDY : Your men commence their work with great spirit. 
I see a prospect of it becoming a flourishing place in a 
short time. 



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Putnam : We have come, we trust, with the same spirit that 
impelled the Pilgrim Fathers when they came to New Eng- 
land in 1620. We have come to spread the peaceful em- 
pire of free religion and of education into new lands and to 
establish it by our industry and our homes. 

McCuRDY : Your largest boat, I see, is called the Mayflower. 

Putnam : It is. It is the second Mayflower. At first it was 
called the Adventure Galley, and then we changed the 
name. 

McCuRDY: A good sized boat! 

Putnam : Fifty tons ; forty-five feet long and twelve feet wide, 
built like a galley, raking at the bows, so she can be sailed 
or rowed upstream. 

White: The boats are all unloaded, General. 

The settlers are all standing around awaiting their next 
orders. 

Putnam: Now at once to work to start our settlement, lay 
out the town and clear the ground ! Colonel Sproat ; you, 
Major Tupper, and Mr. Mathews, take your men and com- 
mence the survey of our town. This 7th day of April shall 
for many years — yes, I believe forever — be celebrated as 
the day when we landed at the mouth of the Muskingum, 
and commenced the survey of the first town of the Ohio 
Company. All you who are not necessary to attend the 
surveys, set to work in clearing ground for the proposed 
works of defence, which we will call the Campus Martius. 

The Surveyors gather together their men, pick up their 
instruments and begin their work. The other men take their 
axes and rifles and go off in various directions and the sound 
of their axes clearing the site of the first stockade is soon heard. 

McCuRDY : That is a wise precaution. 

Putnam : The preparation for a place of defence shall not be 
neglected, for besides the propriety of always guarding 
against savages, I have reason to be cautious. From con- 



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suiting the several treaties which have been made with 
the Indians by our Commissioners (copies of which I ob- 
tained at the War office as I came on) and other circum- 
stances, I am fully persuaded that the Indians will not be 
peaceable very long. 

McCuRDY: You are entirely right, in my judgment. 

Putnam : The emigrants, our families, are expected soon. We 
must immediately erect a cover for them against any 
danger. 

McCuRDY: There are about seventy Indians now encamped 
here at the mouth of the river, Delawares and Wyandots, 
under the Delaware chieftain, Captain Pipes. They have 
come to attend the treaty and to trade, and they appear 
very friendly. 

Putnam : If they come , I will receive them formally and 
smoke the peace pipe with them, if he wishes it. 

McCurdy: Your women and your children will come — 

Putnam : They are expected soon. And soon we hope to have 
a minister and teacher, for the directors of the Company 
resolved last March at Rice's Tavern, in Providence, Rhode 
Island, to pay as early attention as possible to the education 
of youth and the promotion of public worship at the settle- 
ment of the Ohio Company now making. 

One of the sentinels from down the river comes in, and 
reports to McCurdy. 

Sentinel : There are Indians coming up the river bank. 

Putnam : Call in the men. 

McCurdy : Call in the other guards. 

Sentinel: They have no weapons, — to be seen, — and bring 
their squaws and children with them. 

Those who are standing near go out and call in the men. 
The soldiers, the surveyors and the other men come back from 
the woods and gather together on one side with General Put- 



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nam, their other officers, and Captain McCurdy in front of 
them, awaiting the approach of the Indians. 

In a moment from the opposite direction comes Captain 
Pipes, the Delaware chief, and his warriors, followed by a num- 
ber of Indian women and children. They approach giving the 
i.ign of friendship, the up-raised open hand, palm outward, and 
gather in a group opposite the settlers. In reply. General Put- 
nam and the other officers raise their hands in the same way. 

Pipes : Good ! Good ! It is good ! Brother, I come to say that 
you are welcome, and that we are glad that you have come, 
and that we will be your friends forever. 

Putnam : It is good ! Brother, the Great White Father loves 
his red children. He wants to come here to the beautiful 
river and live with them. But he cannot, so he has sent 
us to come here and live here in his stead and to tell you 
that he will be friends with you as long as you are friends 
with him and with us. So we are commencing to build a 
great town here, and the name of the town will be Adelphi, 
which means Brothers. And to show you that this is true 
and that we are your friends he sends you these presents. 

At a motion from General Putnam some of the settlers go 
across to the Indians and distribute presents among them, beads 
and ornaments; and give to Captain Pipes a head-dress. The 
Indians receive the presents with delight, and Captain Pipes 
immediately with great pride puts his head-dress on. 

Pipes : Good ! Good ! It is good ! Brother, we shall be friends 
forever, until the water ceases to flow in the beautiful river. 
At the treaty at the Fort I will smoke the peace pipe with 
you. 

Putnam : I will go to the fort and smoke the peace pipe with 
you when you sign the treaty with Gen. Harmer. 

Pipes : And now I will shake hands with you, as all the Long 
Knives do when they are friends. 

Captain Pipes and his chief warriors come forward and, 
passing before the settlers in single file, shake hands with all 



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the officers. Then they go off whence they came, followed by 
their women and children. 

The settlers stand where they are until the Indians have 
entirely gone. Then General Putnam turns to the men. The 
sentinels return to their posts. 

Putnam : Although we are settling here under the full au- 
thority of the Congress of the United States, we have no 
system of laws under which we can live, nor shall we have 
until the Governor of the North-West Territory, General 
Arthur St. Clair, arrives here to establish civil government 
"sometime this summer. For the time being, as you know, 
the directors of the Ohio Company have appointed a Board 
of. Police to draft a set of rules for the government of the 
settlement until Governor St. Clair and the Judges of the 
Court can prepare a more perfect code. These rules are 
now ready, I understand. Is that true? 

Member: The Board of Police have completed their draft of 
rules for the government of the inhabitants. 

Putnam: You have it there? 

Member: Yes, here it is. (He holds out for all to see a long 
scroll of paper.) 

Putnam: Then as Superintendent of the Ohio Company I 
direct you to post the rules up on yonder large beech tree. 
That will constitute a full and sufficient publishing of the 
rules, and ignorance of any rule will be no excuse. 

The Member of the Board of Police goes and nails the 
paper up on a large tree near at hand, and many of the men 
immediately walk over and begin to read it. Others return to 
their work. One of the sentinels comes running back, cheer- 
ing as he comes. 

Sentinel : A boat ! A boat is coming down the other side of 
Kerr's Island! There are women on it! 

Men: The emigrants! The women and the children! 

With shouting and cheering they run down to the water. 



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The other men who have gone back into the woods to continue 
the survey and to go on with the clearing, come running back 
and on down to the water, shouting and cheering as they go. 
Soon the crowd returns with the first body of the emigrants, 
the first white families of the Ohio settlements. In the lead 
comes General Putnam with Gen. Tupper, Major Gushing, Ma- 
jor Goodale, and their wives and children, welcoming them to 
the settlement and leading them up to where they have started 
the town. It is a very joyous crowd. Husbands who were of 
the first 48 and their wives and children are reunited; friends 
are meeting friends again. The happiness and the novelty of 
the occasion dominate every one. When all have come up, Gen- 
eral Putnam raises his hand for attention. 

Putnam : Here, my friends and fellow citizens, is where we 
are starting our town. It has always been an important 
and sacred spot to the savages, as you will readily believe 
when you see the strange mounds and earth works that are 
so abundant here. It will also surely be a sacred and im- 
portant place to us, for this is the first settlement in a new 
empire west of the Alleghenies. Here we welcome you to 
your new homes in what will soon be a great State, here 
on the north-west bank of the Ohio River. A little farther 
up the Muskingum is the high ground which we have 
chosen for your first shelter. Come, to the Campus Mar- 
tius! 

Following General Putnam the crowd continues its joyous 
way in a body out to the north. 



4. The Northwe^ Territory 



A boy comes running up from the river, calling to some of 
the settlers, men and women, who are going and coming intent 
upon their work. 

Boy : Hi ! Boat turning in ! Landing down at the wharf ! 

The men and women who hear him immediately go down 
lo the river-front, while others come from the direction of the 
Campus Martius as the boy runs on calling out to them. 
Among them are General Rufus Putnam, and other prominent 
men of the settlement. 

Quickly there come up from the river a goodly number of 
new arrivals with their household and other equipment, and 
escorted and helped by the former settlers who went down to 
the wharf. Among the new arrivals is the Rev. Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler and the Rev. Daniel Story. The people greet each other 
most cordially. General Putnam goes right up to Dr. Cutler. 

Putnam: Dr. Cutler! Welcome to Marietta! Friends, you 
most of you know Dr. Cutler! 

Many rush up to grasp Dr. Cutler's hand, and a number 
of the younger men start a hearty cheer for him. He brings 
forward Mr. Story. 

Cutler : Thank you for your good welcome, my friends ! We 
are all of us glad to be here with you at Marietta! Gen- 
eral Putnam, I want to present to you the Rev. Daniel 
Story. 

Putnam: I am glad to welcome you, Mr. Story. 

Cutler : He has come to be your Pastor. 

Story : It is a great honor, I feel, to be the first Pastor of the 
Church in Marietta. 

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welcome their pastor. Friends, friends, Dr. Cutler has 
brought with him a minister of the gospel to be your pastor. 

All the people immediately stop their talking with each 
other and draw together in quiet interest to listen to Dr. Cutler. 

Cutler: You will remember that I was authorized by the 
directors of the Ohio Company to secure the services of an 
instructor eminent for literary accomplishments and virtue 
of character, who should be your pastor and should also 
superintend the first sholastic institutions. I have brought 
to you the Rev. Daniel Story for these important purposes, 
and I now present him to you. 

Several of the older people go up to Mr. Story and shake 
hands with him. 

A Deacon: We are glad to welcome you here among us, 
Brother Story. 

Story : I am glad to come, Brother, and hope to preach to you 
acceptably in the name of the Lord. 

A Woman : You are very welcome among us indeed. 

Story: I thank you with all my heart for your welcome, 
Sister. 

Putnam : Neighbors, do we all welcome Brother Story among 
us to be our pastor and teacher? 

All : We do ; we do ! 

Cutler : In that case, good friends, I am authorized to say to 
you that at an ecclesiastical council holden at Hamilton, in 
the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
on the 15th day of August, convened by letters missive, it 
was voted unanimously that this council is satisfied with 
respect to the qualifications of Mr. Daniel Story for the 
work of the gospel ministry and of his being regularly 
called to be the pastor and teacher of the church and asso- 
ciation at Marietta and its vicinity. 

Deacon : We approve and thank the council for their action. 

All : We do ; we do. Amen. 



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Cutler: So I present him to you officially in the name of the 
council. 

Mr. Story bows low to the people and they all silently bow 
to him. Dr. Cutler turns and addresses the new pastor. 

Cutler : You are already, Sir, by the laying on of hands and 
solemn prayer to God, set apart to the work of the gospel 
ministry. And now to your special care and charge are 
committed the Church and Christian Society of Marietta, 
by whose express desire you are ordained their pastor. 
You have the honour, sir, to be the first regularly ordained 
and settled minister of the Congregational denomination 
in that extensive country westward of the Allegheny moun- 
tains, a country favorable to a high degree of population, 
capable of supporting and probably will one day contain 
inhabitants as numerous as those of the Atlantic states. 
In the name of the great Head of the Church, we most 
solemnly charge you to be a faithful minister of the gospel 
to these people. Preach the word in its purity and sim- 
plicity. Shun not to declare the whole counsel of God. As 
a wise instructor teach every man. As a faithful shepherd 
feed, in all seasons, the flock of God. Feed Christ's sheep ; 
feed his lambs. 

All : Amen. 

Story : Let us bow our heads in silent prayer. 

The men remove their hats and all stand a moment with 
bowed heads. 

Story: Let us sing 'The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare" to 
the tune of Arne. 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare 
And feed me with a shepherd's care; 

His presence shall my wants supply. 
And guard me with a watchful eye ; 

My noon day walks he shall attend. 
And all my midnight hours defend. 

After the new pastor has lined the hyvcm out, the people 
all sing under his lead. 



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As the singing of the hymn comes to an end, the six 
pounder gun at Fort Hanner across the Muskingum is heard 
booming out the salute of fourteen guns in honor of the new- 
Governor of the North-West Territory. Indians appear in the 
edge of the crowd anxious to watch all that goes on. 

Putnam : General Arthur St. Clair is approaching. It is five 
o'clock. See? See the twelve-oared barge? Get ready to 
receive your new Governor, my friends, and fellow citizens ! 

A chair is brought and placed in front of the church. All 
the people mass themselves with General Putnam, Dr. Cutler, 
and their new pastor in the centre, to welcome the procession. 

To the music of a march up from the water comes a pro- 
cession escorting the newly appointed Governor of the North- 
West Territory and the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. 
First comes the Sheriff, Colonel Ebenezer Sproat; then His 
Excellency, General Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the North- 
West Territory, followed by Mr. Winthrop Sargent, Secretary 
of the Territory ; then the three Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas, Samuel Holden Parsons, James Mitchel Varnum, and 
John Cleves Symmes. General Harmar and the officers of the 
garrison at the Fort, with a military escort, close the procession. 
All the people break into loyal and unreserved applause. Gen- 
eral St. Clair takes the chair in front of the church ; the others 
group themselves on either side of him. After a short interval 
of profound silence he rises and addresses the people before 
him. 

St. Clair: I am pleased to inform you that my happiness is 
extreme in meeting you upon so important an occasion. I 
bring with me from the Congress a most excellent consti- 
tution for the government of the whole Territory. To this 
I now claim your attention. Mr. Secretary, will you read 
the Ordinance of the Congress? 

General St. Clair resumes his seat, and Winthrop Sargent 
steps forward to read from the Ordinance. 

Sargent: An Ordinance for the Govermnent of the Territory 
of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio. 

Be it ordained by the United States in Congress as- 



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sembled : That there shall be appointed from time to time 
by Congress a governor, whose commission shall continue 
in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked 
by Congress; and a secretary; and a court to consist of 
three judges, any two of whom to form a court, who shall 
have the common law jurisdiction. The governor shall 
for the time being be commander-in-chief of the militia. 
The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall 
adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original 
States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best 
suited to the circumstances of the district. 

No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and or- 
derly manner shall ever be molested on account of his mode 
of worship or religious sentiments in the said territory. 

Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to 
good government and the happiness of mankind, schools 
and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. 

There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servi- 
tude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment 
of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly con- 
victed. 

Done by the United States in Congress assembled, the 
13th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of their 
sovereignty and independence the twelfth. 

St. Clair: Will you read the Commission of the Governor? 

Sargent : The United States in Congress assembled to Arthur 
St. Clair, Esq. We, reposing special trust and confidence 
in your integrity, prudence and ability, have constituted 
and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and ap- 
point, you, the said Arthur St. Clair, governor in and over 
the territory of the United States of America, northwest of 
the river Ohio; and commander-in-chief of the militia 
therein; to order, rule and govern the same; and we do 
hereby give and grant to you, the said Arthur St. Clair, all 
the powers, authorities and prerogatives assigned to the 
governor of the said territory; and we do strictly enjoin 
all persons to pay due obedience to this our commission. 



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General St. Clair then again rises and delivers the follow- 
ing address. 

St. Clair : A good government, well administered, is the first 
of blessings to a people. The executive part of the ad- 
ministration of this government hath been intrusted to me, 
and I am truly sensible of the importance of the trust, to 
you, gentlemen, over whom it is to be immediately exer- 
cised; to your posterity; perhaps to the whole community 
of America. Would to God I were more equal to the dis- 
charge of it ! But my best endeavors shall not be wanting. 

I esteem it also a singular happiness to you, and to me, 
that the gentlemen appointed to the judicial department 
are of such distinguished characters. The authority of the 
magistrates will be so mixed with and tempered by the 
benignity of their dispositions that you have reason to ex- 
pect much satisfaction from it. 

Situated as you are, in the most temperate climate; 
favored with the most fertile soil ; surrounded by the nobl- 
est and most beautiful rivers; every portion of labor will 
meet its due reward. But you have upon your frontier 
numbers of savages. I will venture to recommend that 
you endeavor to cultivate a good understanding with the 
natives, without much familiarity. 

The present situation of the territory calls for atten- 
tion in various places, and will necessarily induce a fre- 
quent absence, both of the judges and myself from this 
delightful spot ; but at all times and places, as it is my in- 
dispensable duty, so it is very much my desire, to do every- 
thing within the compass of my power, for the peace, good 
order, perfect establishment of the settlement. 

At the close of the Governor's address, peals of applause 
rend the surrounding air and loud cries of 

The People : Long live our Governor ! Long live our Gover- 
nor ! Hurray ! 

General St. Clair, having sat down, rises and acknowledges 
with dignified bows the cordial greetings of the people. Then 



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General Rufus Putnam steps forward to deliver the answer of 
the people to the Governor's address. 

Putnam : May it please your Excellency : The people of this 
settlement, to whom you have been pleased to make known 
the constitution and your commission, beg leave to ap- 
proach you with the warmest affection and sincerest re- 
gard. The constitution itself we consider as the result of 
a wise and most benevolent policy; and we look up with 
veneration to the fathers of their country, whose care and 
attention follow us wherever we go. We can form some 
idea of the arduous task imposed upon the governor of so 
extensive a country as the western territory; but whatever 
dangers may intervene, whatever difficulties may oppose 
the progress of your noble and beneficent designs, we will, 
as far as in our power, share in the burdens, alleviate your 
cares and upon all occasions render a full obedience to the 
government and the laws. 

Great sir: We pray that heaven may grant to you, 
both in your public character and private life, all the felic- 
ity that can meet your expectations, or warmest desires. 
May you long enjoy the tranquility of a mind influenced by 
the principles of rectitude only. May the cold hand of 
death never arrest you, until you shall have accomplished 
all the objects which a great and good man can embrace; 
and then when life shall lose its charms ; when nature shall 
begin to sink beneath the weight of mortality, and when 
the mind impatient to be free shall burst the brittle shell 
which holds it here, may you rise triumphant on cherub's 
wings to enjoy your God in realms of endless felicity! 

General St. Clair rises and bows, and the people cheer. 

Young Man : Three cheers for Governor St. Clair ! Hip, hip— 

All: Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! 

Putman : We now have the honor of inviting your Excellency 
to partake with us of a forest banquet which the women of 
Marietta have prepared for us in the bowery, only a few 
steps from this spot on the Common on the banks of the 
Muskingum River. Strike up, music! 



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The music strikes up the march again, and the procession 
re-forms. First go General St. Clair and General Putnam; 
then the Sheriff and the Judges ; next General Harmar and the 
officers from the Fort and the soldiers; and last the people of 
Marietta, while the Indians withdraw on either side. The pro- 
cession goes forth in the direction of the bowery. 



III. Epilogue: To America 



The music plays the Marietta theme in a form different 
from that at the beginning of the Prologue. Therewith Mari- 
etta comes forth from the central door of the church, and from 
the two sides up from the water come the Spirits of the Wilder- 
ness, and take their places in groups on the steps as in the Pro- 
logue. 

Then the music passes into the soft chords, sostenuto vi- 
brato, by the strings, as Marietta speaks, calling the people of 
the Pageant together. 

Marietta : 

Forefathers, Pilgrims of the long ago. 

Who across the wintry ocean steered your bark 

And founded on New England's shores a state 

Of little size but noble dignity 

And lasting power for civic righteousness : — 

Still are you present with us ! Memory 

Forever honors you, where'er they go 

Who from your dauntless spirits claim descent ! 

Bold Pioneers who planted on these shores 
The first beginnings of a mighty state, 
Who crossed the wintry mountains and in spring 
Sailed down the great Ohio's rapid stream. 

As rapidly, unswervingly as have 

Their dreams swept on to high success since then : — 

You too are present with us ! Memory 

Forever honors you, where'er they go 

Who from your dauntless spirits claim descent ! 

Return, come join us here, with loyal praise 
To pay our grateful homage to that Land 
For which you laid the strong foundations sure 
In conscience, courage, tolerance and hope; 
And then ascribe the glory unto God! 



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The music comes out in a march, based upon the Pil^m 
motif in its earlier and later forms. To this music there comes 
in procession the whole band of the people of the first two 
episodes, the Pilgrims of 1620. Before these are more than 
half in, there comes from the other side the whole band of the 
people of the last two episodes, the Pilgrims of 1788. They 
form in two massed groups one on either side. At the close of 
the march. Marietta turns around, facing the church. 

Marietta : 

America, where'er thou art, we live! 
Where'er we go, there may thy spirit lead ! 

The music plays the hymn, "America," through. From 
the central door of the church comes the imperial figure of 
America, in white, with golden Liberty Cap and golden girdle. 
She carries the Stars and Stripes and wears the Shield of the 
United States on her shoulder. Attending her comes the figure 
of the State of Ohio, in blue, with silver girdle and silver fillet 
around her head, and carrying her State flag. America stands 
between the columns at the top of the steps with Ohio a little 
back of her on her left. Marietta takes her place a little ways 
down the steps on America's right. With orchestral accom- 
paniment the people of the Pageant and of the audience sing 
the four stanzas of the hymn "America." 

With the last, the prayer stanza, "Our fathers' God, to 
Thee," all the people of the pageant kneel, America, Ohio, and 
Marietta turning around so as to kneel with their faces toward 
the church. 

Then the music leads into another march, based on the 
main theme of the pageant, taken from "Time-Honored Mari- 
etta," and the people of the pageant, in recessional, march past 
the group of symbolic figures, America, Ohio, and Marietta, on 
the steps of the church. First comes Governor John Carver 
and the Plymouth Pilgrims, then at a little interval. General 
Rufus Putnam and his settlers. The Spirits of the Wilderness 
and the Indians mingle with the other people. As the last of 
them are about to disappear, America, Ohio, and Marietta turn 
and go into the central door of the church. 



Cast of Characters 



SYMBOLIC FIGURES — "Marietta," Ruth MuUikin; "Ohio," Dorothy 
Roberts; "America," Mrs. Frederick Squires. 

SPIRITS OF THE WILDERNESS — Helen Sheets, Sara Bailey, Frances 
Cisler, Mabel Bode, Mary Goodhue, Mildred Benedict, Consuelo 
Curry, Roberta Rosenthal, Marjory Strecker, Marian Bourquard, 
Martha Daker, Angela Sybert, Gertrude Bode, Grace Vandevert, 
Mary Buckley, Maurine Krigbaum, Louise Stowe, Helen Sandford, 
Margaret West, Emily Kirby, Gladys Kidd, Cornelia McGee, Helen 
Hyde, Ruby Ballentine, Lillian Strecker, Muriel Rempe, Helen Ed- 
wards, Margaret Hoist, Dorothy Williamson, Lillian Cisler. 

CAPE COD AND THE COMPACT AND PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND 

- — Elder William Brewster, Rev. F. N. Lynch; Capt. Myles Standish, 
W. S. Hancock; Capt. Thos. Jones, W. E. Daker; William Bradford, 
Judge A. A. Schramm; John Carver, Rev. Hal Lloyd; Edward Win- 
slow, Arthur Savenye; Londoners, Messrs. Ankenbrand, E. G. Bay, 
Reinhard, Alfred Wittlig; Carpenter, Harold Youmans; A Woman, 
Mrs. J. M. Speary; Another, Mrs. S. K. Scharlott; A Third, Mrs. 
Chas. Brickwede; A Man, Rezin Carothers; Another, Horace Chap- 
man; A Woman, Mrs. Hal Lloyd; Another, Mary Louise Mullikin; 
Mistress Bradford, Mrs. Asa D. McCoy; William White, Jack Hansel; 
Mistress Susanna White, Irene Ogle; Samoset, Carl B. Stephan; 
Squanto, Clyde Slater; A Boy, Irvine Beagle; Sailors, T. Bush, G. 
Bush, Wykle, Goddard; Pilgrim Fathers, Hopkins, T. J. Summers; 
Rowland, Rev. Decker; Allerton, Rev. Norveil; Pilgrim Men, R. Car- 
others, H. Chapman, J. H. Stitt, Patterson, F. Kette, Ludwig, Kelley, 
J. R. Smith. Pilgrim Women — Mrs. Asa D. McCoy, Mrs. Hal Lloyd, 
Mrs. S. K. Scharlott, Mrs. Charles Brickwede, Mrs. S. A. Mullikin, 
Mrs. John Speary, Mrs. Perl Sprague, Mrs. A. J. Stevens, Mrs. W. 
E. Daker, Mrs. C. V. Dye, Miss Winifred Scott, Miss Mary Louise 
Mullikin, Miss Willie Neil, Miss Laura Alden, Miss Irene Ogle. 
Pilgrim Children — Mary Hanna, Marian Sloan, Mildred Ballentine, 
Jane McKinney, Dora Marie Daugherty, Sidney Mullikin, Irvine 
Beagle, Betsy Hathaway. 

THE SECOND MAYFLOWER AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY — 

Capt. Jonathan Devol, D. F. Masters; Gen. Rufus Putnam, Robert 
Noll; Rev. Manassah Cutler, Rev. W. L. Goldsmith; Rev. Daniel 
Stacy, Rev. Robert Vorberg; Gen. Arthur St. Clair, Edwin Strecker; 
A Deacon, Prof. A. G. Beach; Winthrop Sargent, Rev. F. M. Whit- 
lock; Judges of Common Pleas, D. W. Jones, Prof. Chamberlain, 
Prof. Phillips; Capt. McCurdy, Geo. Hartrick; Gen. Tupper, S. A. 
Mullikin; Major Gushing, Kenneth Hunter; Major White, George 



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Schad; Major Tupper, Hiram Maynard; Major Goodale, H. E. Carl- 
ton; Col. Sproat, Rollo Stacey; Gen. Harmar, F. L. McMahon; Fort 
Harmar Soldiers — Dean Kerr, Geo. Light, Rollo Stacey, Howard 
Eaton, J. R. McSwords, P. McSwords, Herbert Reiter, Claude Davis, 
Hubert Collins. 

Pioneers — Sam Ward, Kingston McCoy, Martin Vorberg, Kenneth 
. Ward, Carlos Dawes, Rufus Beach, Hayes Clark, Truman Hast- 
,ings, Edwin Withers, Louis Timblin, Chas. Dawes, G. O. Smith, 
Theron Arthur, Talcott Parsons, Blake Summers, Wells Shock- 
ley, Clifford Masters, Keith Stevens, Abdel Mobley, E. H. 
Schafer, Mr. Roberts. 

Boy — Howard Scott. 

A Woman — Mrs. E. C. Angert. 

Pipes, Indian Chief — George Wilson. 

Pioneer Women — Mrs. George Strecker, Mrs. Clarence Sloan, Mrs. 
S. A. Thurlow, Mrs. E. C. Angert, Mrs. Edgar Hopp, Mrs. Ethel 
Alderman, Mrs. A. L. Smith, Mrs. Frank Shafer, Mrs. James 
Warburton, Mrs. Spence Krigbaum, Misses Anna Roberts, Mar- 
jory Whitaker, Lillian Summers, Willie Neal, Mildred Ludwig. 

Pioneer Children — Margaret Gates, Catherine Hanna, Fanchon 
Sayler, Helen Cisler.Paul Angert, Howard Scott, Lowell Alder- 
man, John Mills, Jane Krigbaum, Lillian Warburton, Lucia 
Manley, Frances May Reese. 

Indians, from Order of Red Men — William Lacey, Charles Hays, 
Alfred Bright, James Hendricks, George Gephart, Ray Parker, 
Herbert Kirchner, William Farley, C. Weber, Arthur Dillon, 
Floyd Robinson, W. E. Callihan, C. F. Schreiber, Walter 
Stephan, Clarence Gilchrist, John Collins, J. Semon, J. D. 
Cochran, George Moines and Lee Miraben. 

Indian Women and Children, Marietta Council No. 9, Degree of 
Pocahontas — Mrs. May Callahan, Mrs, Minnie Gephart, Mrs. 
Bess Wenzel, Mrs. Lizzie Deucher, Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, Mrs. 
Kate Hill, Mrs. Leota Smith, Mrs. Catherine Hicks, Mrs. Jenny 
Mahnken, Mrs. Minnie Beck, Mrs. Kate Wenzel, Mrs. Ellen Pfaff 
Mrs. Cora Bishman. Children — Ruth Wilson, Elizabeth Wil- 
son, Francis Deucher, Billy Cox, Dean Bishman, George Bish- 
man, Wilbur Reese. 



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